Zenit Pharmaceuticals

Zenit Pharmaceuticals was an Italian pharmaceutical company that was owned by the Mainaghi Group. Under Michele Mainaghi, the company was involved with criminal activities, as it sold HIV-tainted blood to customers during the 1980s. The company attempted to hide the issue by launching a 1989 lawsuit against "Lemures", a Barbadian shell corporation set up by the company to make it appear as if Lemures was responsible for the tainted blood. However, in 1992, policeman Luca Pastore discovered that Lemures and Zenit shared a lawyer, Attilio Arnaldi, and he worked with Mainaghi administrator Raffaella Grandi to prevent Zenit from continuing to sell tainted blood on the market. However, before he could bust Lemures as they delivered a shipment of the tainted blood to Zenit, Mainaghi president Bibi Mainaghi had the tainted blood burnt, as she knew that Pastore was spying on her, and she would therefore be heard opposing the practice.